85S10504 MM/TSR-D
By: Guillen H.B. No. 181
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the salary and retirement benefits paid to certain
teachers employed by or retired from public schools.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
ARTICLE 1. CLASSROOM TEACHER SALARIES
SECTION 1.01. Section 21.402, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsections (c-2), (c-3), and (d) and amending Subsection
(g) to read as follows:
(c-2) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), for the 2017-2018
school year, a classroom teacher is entitled to a monthly salary
that is at least equal to the sum of:
(1) the monthly salary the teacher would have received
for the 2017-2018 school year under the district's salary schedule
for the 2016-2017 school year, if that schedule had been in effect
for the 2017-2018 school year, including any local supplement and
any money representing a career ladder supplement the teacher would
have received in the 2017-2018 school year; and
(2) $100.
(c-3) Subsection (c-2) and this subsection expire September
1, 2018.
(d) A classroom teacher employed by a school district in the
2017-2018 school year is, as long as the teacher is employed by the
same district, entitled to a salary that is at least equal to the
salary the teacher received for the 2017-2018 school year.
(g) The commissioner may adopt rules to govern the
application of this section, including rules that:
(1) require the payment of a minimum salary under this
section to a person employed in more than one capacity for which a
minimum salary is provided and whose combined employment in those
capacities constitutes full-time employment; and
(2) specify the credentials a person must hold to be
considered a [speech pathologist or] school nurse under this
section.
SECTION 1.02. Section 42.2513(a), Education Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) A school district, including a school district that is
otherwise ineligible for state aid under this chapter, is entitled
to state aid in an amount equal to the sum of:
(1) the product of $500 multiplied by the number of
full-time district employees, other than administrators or
employees subject to the minimum salary schedule under Section
21.402; [and]
(2) the product of $1,000 multiplied by the number of
classroom teachers employed by the district; and
(3) the product of $250 multiplied by the number of
part-time district employees, other than administrators.
SECTION 1.03. Section 21.402(c-1), Education Code, is
repealed.
SECTION 1.04. This article applies beginning with the
2017-2018 school year.
ARTICLE 2. TEACHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM COST-OF-LIVING ADJUSTMENT
SECTION 2.01. Subchapter H, Chapter 824, Government Code,
is amended by adding Section 824.703 to read as follows:
Sec. 824.703. ADDITIONAL COST-OF-LIVING ADJUSTMENT. (a)
Notwithstanding Section 824.702, the retirement system shall make a
one-time cost-of-living adjustment of $1,000 payable to annuitants
receiving a monthly death or retirement benefit annuity, as
provided by this section.
(b) Subject to Subsections (c) and (d), to be eligible for
the adjustment, a person must be, on the effective date of the
adjustment and disregarding any forfeiture of benefits under
Section 824.601, an annuitant eligible to receive:
(1) a standard service or disability retirement
annuity payment;
(2) an optional service or disability retirement
annuity payment as either a retiree or beneficiary;
(3) an annuity payment under Section 824.402(a)(3) or
(4);
(4) an annuity payment under Section 824.502; or
(5) an alternate payee annuity payment under Section
804.005.
(c) If the annuitant:
(1) is a retiree or is a beneficiary under an optional
retirement payment plan, to be eligible for the adjustment under
this section:
(A) the annuitant must be living on the effective
date of the adjustment; and
(B) the effective date of the retirement of the
member of the retirement system must have been after August 31,
2004, and on or before June 30, 2017;
(2) is a beneficiary under Section 824.402(a)(3) or
(4) or 824.502, to be eligible for the adjustment:
(A) the annuitant must be living on the effective
date of the adjustment; and
(B) the date of death of the member of the
retirement system must have been after August 31, 2004, and on or
before June 30, 2017; or
(3) is an alternate payee under Section 804.005, the
annuitant is eligible for the adjustment only if the effective date
of the election to receive the annuity payment was after August 31,
2004, and on or before June 30, 2017.
(d) An adjustment made under this section does not apply to
payments under:
(1) Section 824.203(d), relating to retirees who
receive a standard service retirement annuity in an amount fixed by
statute;
(2) Section 824.304(a), relating to disability
retirees with less than 10 years of service credit;
(3) Section 824.304(b)(2), relating to disability
retirees who receive a disability annuity in an amount fixed by
statute;
(4) Section 824.404(a), relating to active member
survivor beneficiaries who receive a survivor annuity in an amount
fixed by statute;
(5) Section 824.501(a), relating to retiree survivor
beneficiaries who receive a survivor annuity in an amount fixed by
statute; or
(6) Section 824.804(b), relating to participants in
the deferred retirement option plan with regard to payments from
their deferred retirement option plan accounts.
(e) An adjustment under this section must be made beginning
with an annuity payable for the month of December 2017.
(f) The board of trustees shall:
(1) recompute the amount of a benefit paid monthly
under this chapter by applying the $1,000 adjustment to the monthly
amount otherwise required to be paid as determined in accordance
with the other applicable provisions of this chapter; and
(2) determine the eligibility for and the amount of
any adjustment in monthly annuities in accordance with this
section.
ARTICLE 3. EFFECTIVE DATE
SECTION 3.01. This Act takes effect immediately if it
receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each
house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.
If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate
effect, this Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of
the legislative session.